This Training Pack is a professional development programme of the Council of Europe which is designed to support and promote the teaching of controversial issues in schools (2015-20).

In this 12th-grade Law class at a High School in Minnesota,  the teacher engages students in a structured discussion of a highly controversial issue - racial profiling - and connects student learning both to their study of due process in constitutional law and to police procedure in their study of criminal law (Annenberg 2015).

Hundreds of discussion topic handouts with thousands of suggestions for questions - That's a lot of discussion! Everyday themes and more controversial issues. Ready-to-print *.DOC and *.PDF downloads.

The role of lobbyists is controversial in American politics. (USA: ThoughtCo 2021)

Background, negotiation process and controversial points of the proposed EU-US free trade agreement (House of Commons Library 2016)

This collection of resources is designed to engage young people with a number of contemporary controversial issues (USA: C-SPAN 2017).

In this NY Times lesson students will research different political perspectives on a controversial political issue and then write their own opinion piece to be published on a class blog (2009).

PlayDecide is a discussion game to talk in a simple and effective way about controversial issues. The project is supported by the European Commission to stimulate the use of discussion games and other debate formats in European cities for the development of a scientific culture at the local level (2012-20).

The U.S. Constitution says nothing about political parties. Yet they soon became a significant part of the governmental system, and sometimes a controversial part, as illustrated by Washington 1796 (USA: The American Presidency Project 2020).

His reign marked the beginning of one of history’s greatest empires … and the end of one of its first republics. Was Rome’s first emperor a visionary leader who guaranteed his civilization’s place in history, or a tyrant who destroyed its core values? Peta Greenfield and Alex Gendler put this controversial figure on trial in History vs. Augustus (USA: TED-Ed 2018) ...